multimedia
anthropology
lab
Mission
UCL MAL is a student-led research network aimed at developing innovative methods for anthropological practice. We experiment with diverse tools and mediums for gathering data and presenting research, including sound, film, VR/360 video, AI, performance, exhibitions and installations, and explore how they can contribute towards alternative forms of anthropological thinking. If anthropology is to remain relevant today we must develop new forms of practice which can dialogue with more diverse audiences, collaborate with colleagues across different disciplines, and disrupt existing models of thought.
How can we respond to planetary crisis? MultiCOP invites a global call to action to participate in muHow can we respond to the planetary crisis? UCL MAL has partnered with Indigenous community leaders in Brazil to cohost MultiCOP - an international conference that bridges science, Indigenous knowledge, creative practice, and civic engagement to transform how we engage with climate action.
How can we cultivate collaborative planetary futures? Over the last four years, UCL MAL has been working in partnership with Guarani and Kaiowá indigenous communities in Brazil. This October, Guarani and Kaiowá elders are coming to London to co-host a dynamic events series of multimedia performances, immersive installations, workshops and panel discussions.
This project proposes to develop an immersive spatial audio composition in collaboration with Guarani and Kaiowá indigenous communities in Brazil. Community elders and youth, this year two members of the community are joining the UCL MAL team in Europe to participate in an artists residency at MONOM Studios in Berlin.
How can Zoology collections be rethought by Indigenous communities in Brazil? This project invites Guarani and Kaiowa communities to engage with the Grant Museum of Zoology Collectioans at UCL, and explores participatory approaches and innovative methods of presenting zoology and natural history collections to a wide public audience.
This exhibition explores the interplay between anthropological thought and computer intelligence. Both algorithms and the anthropological mind recursively dismantle and reconfigure knowledge, generating new forms of ethnographic data. By probing this formal equivalence, the exhibition examines systems of value and opens space to reimagine what it means to be (more than) human in the 21st-century mediascape.
